10. The Death Of Elisa Lam
On January 26th, 2013, University of British Columbia student Elisa Lam of Vancouver, checked into the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles and went missing for 18 days before her body was found under bizarre circumstances. Lam planned to travel what she called a “west Coast Tour” through the cities of Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Diego and San Francisco. Her trip seemed to be going well based on photos Lam posted on social media, until she arrived at the Cecil Hotel. She was assigned a shared room, but the room occupants complained to the manager about her strange, erratic behaviour and the manager moved her to her own room. Surveillance footage from February 1st shows Lam cowering in the hotel elevator, peeking out into the hallway and quickly turning into the elevator again as if she were hiding from something or someone. The footage of Lam was the last time she was seen alive. Eighteen days later, her body was found in the water tank on the roof of the hotel, having drowned in it. It is still unknown how she got onto the roof (with the door being locked and alarmed), or how she got in the tank, which had no fixed access. The circumstances of her disappearance and death have been hotly debated and theorized, with no definitive explanation to date.
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